Keep plowing ahead ignoring your customers. After all, they'll buy what you damn well want them to buy, right? Wrong. GM had piss-poor leadership, management with no vision. They kept making product that no one wanted to buy. The market handled GM alright.
Now, just think if GM had treated every potential customer that entered a dealership as a criminal.
Watch out RIAA/MPAA your industries are next. The market will handle you as well.
well for starters, my dad knew the guy who invented that carburetor and told me how he did it. He was a machinist who invented a nozzle which atomizes the fuel when it entered the chamber. That alone made it far more efficient since far less fuel was needed to produce the same effect. The problem is, it was far more dangerous because the resulting gasoline vapor was much more explosive then before. The guy originally invented his concept to use in an oil furnace in Alaska.
as for stifling innovation, fiber optic high-speed Internet time has come, but you won't find it for less than $2000 a month because they're not done selling DSL and cable Internet to customers.
side-curtain airbags is an idea whose time has come, but you won't find those in an economy car.
GM has had the capability of making cars which last over 100,000 miles without even a tune-up, but they chose not to do so because they made money off broken parts.
Industry has the capability of producing solar panels cheap enough that a middle class family could potentially cover their roof with them and sell extra power to the local utility. Industry is just now starting to mass produce them, after 10 years of having the technology.
There are lots of stifled inventions. Whomever stifles, is whoever profits.
Anyone who wants to reign in personal freedom and behavior because he thinks it hurts his business clearly didn't earn his MBA.
Where Lynton sees barriers to his business, entrepreneurs see real opportunities.
Seriously, when these captains of industry bitch and whine about the Internet, I see massive opportunities.
People who download music and movies may be pirates, but they're also FANS! And pirates can be made into customers. But not on industry's terms.
We new breed of consumers won't be forced, pigeonholed, or coerced into accepting your terms. We name our own terms. If you accept them, you make money. If not, there are plenty of substitutions. I'd pay what I think is reasonable and fair for content if it was available, fast, and in the format I prefer.
That's the problem though. Lynton bitches about the Internet. And while he bitches, I don't see Sony's catalog available anywhere online. Sony makes small portions available under heavily conditioned agreements. Why do they make it so hard for customers to buy their content?
learn how to fly a park flyer first. they are the easiest to fly and the most rugged.
once you learn how that particular plane flies, next step is to start automating some of the control surfaces.
I suggest you start simple, program simple a simple take-off and then relinquish to manual. (make sure you program a throttle cut-off if you don't receive manual input in x time.)
once you get that down, work next on a simple park circuit.
As for hardware, the simplest design is a board to control the servos by emulating the radio inputs. This way, you can record your stick movements and later have them play back.
This is the best for simple automation. afterwords, when your hardware gets more complicated, you can change your design to do true flying via sensors with a bigger model.
The important thing is understanding the flight physics before you think you can just plug in numbers and think it will fly properly. Every plane flies differently. You need to learn your plane before programming it because you can't program behavior properly that you can't perform yourself.
the majority of games have gone down in quality. You always see that with industry. Quantity goes up, quality goes down. But it's not a physical product you morons, you can duplicate it at will.
but also, most theatres suck ass. They charge too much for refreshments and food, the seats are usually too close together.
That's why I only go to the cinebistro now. Even though the food sucks, the seats are huge and they only admit 21 and up.
Let's work on this note for a minute. It's entirely true, network execs really don't give a crap about viewers. They're glorified salesmen. Their prospects are corporations who buy ad space on the networks. The viewers have been for some time just a periphery.
All of the money they spend on market research and their ratings systems are still flawed.
I, personally, participate in online focus groups for NBC and FOX. The questions they ask are clearly for the mouth-breathers. It proves that each series is a finely controlled machine. If the people don't like a new character or plot line, the network will change it. Anything to keep the sets turned on. TFA asks where the militant viewers were on Friday nights?
Simple answer. And I do hope this finds some empty-suited network exec's eyes.
We don't sit at home waiting for television anymore. We watch the shows when it's convenient for us. We set our DVR from our mobile phone. We download the shows in HD without commercials from torrent or usenet or other sources. We watch hulu. We get subscriptions on iTunes. We buy the damn DVD. We download the DVD. We watch it on our phone and our laptops and our HTPCs and our appleTV.
In providing that much valued service to their customers, the corporations, they have forgotten that valued service they used to provide to us, the viewer. That is, content. They used to be the only place left to get content. Now, not so much.
How long before corporations begin sponsoring production companies for individual projects? How long before the fat, bloated, ignorant, oblivious middle-man gets cut out?
How long before we can start watching shows by purchasing a direct subscription to its website? How long before a production company publishes its own content direct to web in HD format without the annoying 2 minute interruptions every 7 minutes?
How long before network executives start pissing in their pants because they're no longer necessary? How long?
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If a clandestine organization has the funds, logistics, and operatives to carry out an attack on these facilities, they already know about them.
Who didn't know about los alamos, livermore, or sandia?
Keep plowing ahead ignoring your customers.
After all, they'll buy what you damn well want them to buy, right? Wrong. GM had piss-poor leadership, management with no vision. They kept making product that no one wanted to buy. The market handled GM alright.
Now, just think if GM had treated every potential customer that entered a dealership as a criminal.
Watch out RIAA/MPAA your industries are next. The market will handle you as well.
we need a brain interface for said eye which we already have. We call it a CCD camera.
well for starters, my dad knew the guy who invented that carburetor and told me how he did it. He was a machinist who invented a nozzle which atomizes the fuel when it entered the chamber. That alone made it far more efficient since far less fuel was needed to produce the same effect. The problem is, it was far more dangerous because the resulting gasoline vapor was much more explosive then before. The guy originally invented his concept to use in an oil furnace in Alaska.
as for stifling innovation, fiber optic high-speed Internet time has come, but you won't find it for less than $2000 a month because they're not done selling DSL and cable Internet to customers.
side-curtain airbags is an idea whose time has come, but you won't find those in an economy car.
GM has had the capability of making cars which last over 100,000 miles without even a tune-up, but they chose not to do so because they made money off broken parts.
Industry has the capability of producing solar panels cheap enough that a middle class family could potentially cover their roof with them and sell extra power to the local utility. Industry is just now starting to mass produce them, after 10 years of having the technology.
There are lots of stifled inventions. Whomever stifles, is whoever profits.
1. stupid people who can't figure out how to use technology. This is the cause of the "easy to use" revolution.
2. religious zealots who find technology to be "indistinguishable from magic" and therefore "against god".
3. government who chooses not to invest in new technologies and continues to utilize old technologies due to budgeting priorities.
4. industry as a whole who buys and buries new technologies until they can no longer sell old technologies.
you are so woefully wrong about that.
75% of gamers are over 18.
26% of gamers are over 50.
43% of gamers are women over 18.
your argument is quite inadequate
http://www.theesa.com/facts/gameplayer.asp
I have to agree.
Why would EA leak a pre-rtm build of sims3? This hardly seems logical.
And we know that it was EA who leaked it. No one else had access to that build did they?
So why would EA leak this build if not to test the waters by baiting the pirates?
This is proof that EA leaks their own pirated games.
Why are these CEOs, and I do mean plural, intent on providing what they think we should buy instead of what the market actually wants to buy?
I understand that some men of vision can provide new markets, but this is far from the case.
They want what all software publishers have wet dreams about: vendor lock-in.
It's not gonna happen. I will never abandon my PC for gaming. Apple and gaming are antonyms. The two go together like oil and water, sheep and wolves.
so, Ubisoft CEO, I say NO! I won't buy it. Not now, not ever!
This violates the 4th amendment of the constitution.
This is an unreasonable search. When you refuse, they will help you with an unreasonable seizure.
They have absolutely no probable cause. It's a wide dragnet that is illegal and unconstitutional.
ARRRRR!
seriously who didn't know this was the case?
someone has to crack that DRM just for the sake of cracking it.
with their failed ps3 product, and their loudmouth CEO and their draconian content policies, who isnt completely over sony?
Anyone who wants to reign in personal freedom and behavior because he thinks it hurts his business clearly didn't earn his MBA.
Where Lynton sees barriers to his business, entrepreneurs see real opportunities.
Seriously, when these captains of industry bitch and whine about the Internet, I see massive opportunities.
People who download music and movies may be pirates, but they're also FANS! And pirates can be made into customers. But not on industry's terms.
We new breed of consumers won't be forced, pigeonholed, or coerced into accepting your terms. We name our own terms. If you accept them, you make money. If not, there are plenty of substitutions. I'd pay what I think is reasonable and fair for content if it was available, fast, and in the format I prefer.
That's the problem though. Lynton bitches about the Internet. And while he bitches, I don't see Sony's catalog available anywhere online. Sony makes small portions available under heavily conditioned agreements. Why do they make it so hard for customers to buy their content?
first step, get a park flyer
learn how to fly a park flyer first. they are the easiest to fly and the most rugged.
once you learn how that particular plane flies, next step is to start automating some of the control surfaces.
I suggest you start simple, program simple a simple take-off and then relinquish to manual. (make sure you program a throttle cut-off if you don't receive manual input in x time.)
once you get that down, work next on a simple park circuit.
As for hardware, the simplest design is a board to control the servos by emulating the radio inputs. This way, you can record your stick movements and later have them play back.
This is the best for simple automation. afterwords, when your hardware gets more complicated, you can change your design to do true flying via sensors with a bigger model.
The important thing is understanding the flight physics before you think you can just plug in numbers and think it will fly properly. Every plane flies differently. You need to learn your plane before programming it because you can't program behavior properly that you can't perform yourself.
you can relax.
when your wife gets thyroid cancer from who knows what exposure, you can't relax!
first and foremost, you can suck it, FDA! suck it hard!
You knew this all along and you put us all in danger due to corporate influences.
We should now be able to see the FDA chief, who allowed BPA to continue in products, put in jail for gross negligence.
What made them great, was they were the pinnacle of gaming technology at the time.
They aren't the pinnacle anymore.
Let them go in peace. nintendorks!
they give you a place to upload music files.
then they decide to prosecute you for uploading music files?
This has a fishy smell all over it.
a dad banned his kid from playing games and the kid killed himself.
then...
the thai government says this is bad, we need to stop those gaming sites.
then...
the thai government effectively bans everyone from gaming?
and no one else is supposed to kill themselves?
I thought for a second I might see some intelligent discourse, but I honestly skipped your entire reply once I read the phrase "as nintendo has".
I was playing games when you were in diapers. Before nintendo. I'll be playing long after there is no nintendo.
The problem with "you people" is that you always think game play is the pinnacle of the piece. You'd be wrong.
Trust this, no one is giving up movies for nintendo games. No one ever will.
Nintendo doesn't understand immersion. They never will.
You don't understand games as a business or as an art form.
You could have the most addicting game play in the world, if it looks like something for japanese toddlers, it will not be taken seriously.
And don't assume I'm buying crap. I only buy quality games. I never buy crap.
buy 9 more and cluster them. Then you can rent out processing time on your cluster.
the majority of games have gone down in quality. You always see that with industry. Quantity goes up, quality goes down. But it's not a physical product you morons, you can duplicate it at will.
but also, most theatres suck ass. They charge too much for refreshments and food, the seats are usually too close together.
That's why I only go to the cinebistro now. Even though the food sucks, the seats are huge and they only admit 21 and up.
nope, looks like you can't read.
cooling and squeezing both take tremendous energy. How much energy? Is it worth the trade-off for the increased efficiency?
answer those questions instead of insulting.
Looks like if you want to play the game now, You can download it and play a working copy.
Or you can use steam, for simplicity.
Pirates 1, publisher 0.
agreed completely.
Let's work on this note for a minute. It's entirely true, network execs really don't give a crap about viewers. They're glorified salesmen. Their prospects are corporations who buy ad space on the networks. The viewers have been for some time just a periphery.
All of the money they spend on market research and their ratings systems are still flawed.
I, personally, participate in online focus groups for NBC and FOX. The questions they ask are clearly for the mouth-breathers. It proves that each series is a finely controlled machine. If the people don't like a new character or plot line, the network will change it. Anything to keep the sets turned on. TFA asks where the militant viewers were on Friday nights?
Simple answer. And I do hope this finds some empty-suited network exec's eyes.
We don't sit at home waiting for television anymore. We watch the shows when it's convenient for us. We set our DVR from our mobile phone. We download the shows in HD without commercials from torrent or usenet or other sources. We watch hulu. We get subscriptions on iTunes. We buy the damn DVD. We download the DVD. We watch it on our phone and our laptops and our HTPCs and our appleTV.
In providing that much valued service to their customers, the corporations, they have forgotten that valued service they used to provide to us, the viewer. That is, content. They used to be the only place left to get content. Now, not so much.
How long before corporations begin sponsoring production companies for individual projects? How long before the fat, bloated, ignorant, oblivious middle-man gets cut out?
How long before we can start watching shows by purchasing a direct subscription to its website? How long before a production company publishes its own content direct to web in HD format without the annoying 2 minute interruptions every 7 minutes?
How long before network executives start pissing in their pants because they're no longer necessary? How long?
Just how much energy was used in making the europium more efficient at energy transfer?
The proverbial chicken and egg and perpetual motion machines called, they want their gimmick back.